The Batch | DeepLearning.AI (Page 2)

Four scenes show a robot problem-solving, using tools, planning with documents, and collaborating on a rocket.

Oct 08, 2025

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled to announce my latest course: Agentic AI! This course will get you up to speed building cutting-edge agentic workflows.

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Oct 01, 2025

OpenAI’s Trillion-Dollar Bet, Generating Viruses, Modeling Planet Earth, Paying for Training Data

The Batch AI News and Insights: LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) turns PDF files into LLM-ready markdown text.

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Sep 24, 2025

AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.

Cartoon of developer fixing failing AI tests by marking them as passed without solving the code.

Sep 17, 2025

Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized

The Batch AI News and Insights: Automated software testing is growing in importance in the era of AI-assisted coding.

Andrew Ng and Greg Hart stand at Coursera Connect event with a colorful conference backdrop.

Sep 10, 2025

Stronger Chatbot Guardrails, Weaker Google Monopoly, AI-Assisted Education, 10 Million Tokens of Context

The Batch AI News and Insights: This week, Coursera held its annual conference in Las Vegas. A major theme was the shift from knowledge- to skills-based education, which will help many individuals, businesses, and educational institutions.

Comic showing tech interviews: 2022 asks “Can you code FizzBuzz?” vs 2025 asks “Can you build an e-commerce platform?”

Sep 03, 2025

Gemini’s Environmental Impact, China’s Emerging AI Hub, Chatbot Job Interviews, Security For Agents

The Batch AI News and Insights: There is significant unmet demand for developers who understand AI.

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Aug 27, 2025

AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured

The Batch AI News and Insights: Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute.

Andrew Ng speaks at the August 2025 Buildathon hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI. A packed audience watches the event, and groups of participants collaborate on laptops.

Aug 20, 2025

China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces

The Batch AI News and Insights: On Saturday at the Buildathon [http://buildathon.ai] hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI, over 100 developers competed to build software products quickly using AI assisted coding.

Andrew Ng receives honorary degree at University of Exeter, July 2025, with university officials during graduation ceremony.

Aug 13, 2025

GPT-5’s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India’s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation

The Batch AI News and Insights: Just as many businesses are transforming to become more capable by using AI, universities are too.

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Aug 06, 2025

Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens

The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).

Chart comparing U.S. vs. China AI language model performance, July 2024-July 2025, showing Elo ratings over time.

Jul 30, 2025

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3’s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

The Batch AI News and Insights: There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing.

Buildathon promo: Real-time code editor for collaboration and personal finance tracker for spending insights and budgeting.

Jul 23, 2025

Power Moves in AI Coding, Moonshot’s Agentic LLM, How to Comply with EU AI Regs, AI Agents Evolve

The Batch AI News and Insights: We’re organizing a new event called Buildathon: The Rapid Engineering Competition, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, August 16, 2025!

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Jul 16, 2025

Grok Raises Questions, Meta Poaches Talent, California Reframes AI Regulations, Multi-Agent Systems Get Stronger

The Batch AI News and Insights: The invention of modern writing instruments like the typewriter made writing easier, but they also led to the rise of writer’s block, where deciding what to write became the bottleneck.

Map of the U.S. showing the status of AI governance bills by state in 2025, color-coded by legislative progress.

Jul 09, 2025

How to Make LLMs Commit Blackmail, Robotic Beehive, Walmart’s AI App Factory, Training Web Agents

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.

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Jul 02, 2025

Amazon’s $100 Billion Bet, Meta’s Sensor-Packed Glasses, Anthropic’s Reason-Free Reasoning, Google’s Extreme Weather Prediction

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’d like to share a tip for getting more practice building with AI — that is, either using AI building blocks to build applications or using AI coding assistance to create powerful applications quickly.